CYBERNETICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cybernetics mean? 

• CYBERNETICS (noun)
  The noun CYBERNETICS has 1 sense:

1. (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)

  Familiarity information: CYBERNETICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYBERNETICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cybernetics" is a kind of...):

informatics; information processing; information science; IP (the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Derivation:

cybernetic (of or relating the principles of cybernetics)

 Context examples 

It overlaps considerably with communication theory and cybernetics.

(Information and Communication Theory, NCI Thesaurus)